Software catalog overview

These concepts provide information to help you perform the software catalog tasks.

Software catalog
A software catalog can be imported into Maximo IT, where it is saved in the database. The software catalog records are then viewed and managed from the Software Catalog application.
Software hierarchy
A software hierarchy is the combination of product, version, and release (or feature) that represents an item of software in a database. The product is the root of the hierarchy. Two software types, distributed and mainframe, determine the kind of relationships that are possible in the software hierarchy. For example, IBM® DB2® is distributed software with a product, version, and release hierarchy. IBM AIX® is mainframe software with a product, version, and feature hierarchy.
Authorized items and linking
An authorized item is an item master record, with a status of Active, in the Item Master application. When a software catalog record is displayed on the Software tab of the Software Catalog application, you can link the record to an authorized item in order to assist with licensing any future procurements of that item.
Conversion variants
A conversion variant is a software catalog record designated as an alias of the currently displayed record on the Software tab of the Software Catalog application.

Parent topic: Using the Software Catalog application